Putting dishes of salt in orbit solved the problem. No drama.
I really liked that the parasitic enemy looked just like the creatures of Ceti Alpha V. Like they were evolved intelligent forms of the same mind-controlling species. A nice touch, wasted because the story was dropped.
*The Simpsons *started doing that often after they passed the ten-season mark. Another example is the episode where Marge opened up a successful chain of gyms (one of which was located in the vacated space of Comic-Book Guy’s shop). At the end of the episode, Marge still had the money earned from the gym franchise and the Comic-Book Guy was still without his shop but, by next week, everything was back to the pre-episode status quo without even the flimsiest explanation. The writers did things like this not so much because they didn’t care but to deliberately fuck with the continuity nerds in the Simpsons fandom.
At the end of Season 8 of Red Dwarf, Rimmer ends up alone on the ship (he had gone to a parallel “mirror” universe to obtain a cure for a disease, only to discover that when he got back to the “real” universe, it had turned into the disease itself), and at the end of the episode, a character who appears to be Death shows up, only for Rimmer to kick him in the crotch. When the show returned, albeit years later, this was never mentioned.
Here’s one that goes way back, although it’s not exactly a “cliffhanger”; at the end of the next-to-last season of Petticoat Junction, it is revealed that Betty Jo is pregnant again. However, the pregnancy is never brought up in the final season.
Season 2 of Heroes had the girlfriend of a protagonist (Peter?) stuck in an alternate future in the middle of the season. Said dystopic future was averted at the end of the season, and the girlfriend was never seen or heard from again. IIRC, she was a victim of the writers’ strike as well as the temporal meddling.
Speaking of pregnancies, Sally McMillan was pregnant twice, but no children were ever seen or heard. No indication were seen that a baby or babies unknown lived in the house. Never was there a concern for finding a baby sitter while the duo was solving the latest mystery. Only one child was listed as killed in the plane crash that took the life of poor, dear Sally, but no one cared to mourn, or even give the child a name.
Next season, Mac is a single guy on the prowl, bedding a different woman each episode. The loss of the love of his life, and of his one (or two) child(ren) seemed to have been left unresolved. It didn’t apparently bother him one bit.
It’s actually mentioned repeatedly. Just never actually explained. Series X had a running gag where Rimmer tries to claim credit for saving the ship, and someone (I think always Lister, but I’d have to rewatch it to be sure) starts to correct him, only to be cut off by circumstances before he can explain what really happened.
Good call. The writer’s strike really killed that season and the show never really recovered.
SLEDGE HAMMER! got cancelled, and so they ended the season with a perfect series finale: our hero attempts to disarm a nuke, which – apparently goes off.
Wait, we’ve just been picked up for Season Two? Um. Kind of wrote ourselves into a corner there, didn’t we? Okay, then: SEASON TWO: THE PREQUEL.
Wasn’t that just a special standalone Olympics episode? Season 2 starts on Sept 22.
Looked like an episode to me. If not then I remove my objection
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Exactly.
On the gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows” there was a time when Barnabas Collins and Dr Julia Hoffman were bitter enemies and he is threatening to kill her (she is one of the few who knows he is a vampire, I guess Willie is the other one). Anyways Victoria Winters goes back in time to 1790 which reveals how Barnabas became a vampire. Barnabas becomes a sympathetic character as he was cursed by the vengeful witch Angelique (you can tell she is a which because she nevers blinks her eyes) because Barnabas fooled around for her and dumped lady’s maid for her Mistress Josette. Anyways by the time Victoria gets back to 1967 (and Barnabas has been locked in his coffin by his faithful servant), Barnabas and Julia are now good friends (although she is always pining for a romantic involvement and he never notices, going after younger and prettier women.
Star trek TNG in its first season had the next to last episode “Conspiracy” as a number of Starfleet high officials possessed by an evil group of parasites apparently planning invasion. They are never seen or referred to again
I think Lucas is working on a re-issue where Ivan shoots first
I think they played that one out of order to play up the Olympics theme.